Major Win at Oscars 2018 for Kobe Bryant, Daniel Kaluuya and Jordan Peele

The 90th Academy Awards which was held on Sunday night 2nd March 2018 honored The Shape of Water (an American romantic fantasy Drama) with the top prize for the best picture, directing, original score and product design. Other winners for the night include; Kobe Bryant for the animated short film for Dear Basketball, Jordan Peele for the best original screenplay in Get Out, Gary Oldman for the best actor in a leading role in Darkest Hour, Frances McDormand for the best actress in a leading role in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Sam Rockwell for the best actor in supporting role in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Netflix’ own Icarus for the best documentary feature and Allison Janney who won the best actress in supporting role in I, Tonya.

With the Oscars 2018 focus being on the #MeToo and Time’s Up movement which are meant to shun sexual harassment and abuse, Kobe Bryant win has triggered different opinions from the viewers on social media. Kobe Bryant had been charged with rape allegations of a 19-year-old lady in year 2003 in Colorado although the prosecutors dropped the charges a year later because the defendant wasn’t willing to continue with the trial. Kobe Bryant who is a five-time NBA champion, 18-time-all-star and two-time MVP has added an Oscar to his resume by winning the Best Animated short film called Dear Basketball, which he wrote shortly before retiring.

Although Daniel Kaluuya who plays the W’Kabi role in the Black Panther film did not grab an award for the night, nominations as an Actor in a leading role in the film ‘Get Out’ to the 2018 Oscars Awards was already a win for him.

For Jordan Peele, his win for the night marks the start of the black directors’ movement. “It’s a renaissance, of this moment when films like DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time and Coogler’s Black Panther will be in the cinematic conversation at the same time. I’m glad to be part of a time, the beginning of a movement, where the best films of every genre are being brought to me by my fellow black directors,’’ said Jordan Peele speaking to reporters at the Academy Awards backstage.

Regardless of this being Gary Oldman’s first Oscar win in the film Darkest Hour where he plays as Winston Churchill, he still has second thoughts. Gary regrets his position in the film where the 1940 Winston had to make a decision to send 4,000 men to die in war so as to save 300,000.

Here is the full list of the nominations as well as winners for different categories:

Best Picture

Call Me by Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Get Out

Lady Bird

Phantom Thread

The Post

The Shape of Water (Winner)

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Music- Original Score

Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk

Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread

Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water (winner)

John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Director

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water (Winner)

Best Production Design

Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin, The Shape of Water (winner)